3.4 - Dynamic Programming Approach
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Practice Questions
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What is a subword?
💡 Hint: Think about how you can take parts of a word
What is the time complexity of the brute-force algorithm for finding longest common subwords?
💡 Hint: Consider how many comparisons you are making.
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What is the focus of the longest common subword problem?
💡 Hint: Remember that we start by calculating length before deriving the subword.
True or False: The brute-force algorithm is the most efficient method for finding the longest common subword.
💡 Hint: Consider the time complexity of brute-force versus dynamic programming.
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Given the strings 'abcdef' and 'zabcyfd', what is the length of the longest common subword?
💡 Hint: Consider breaking down each string and checking for the longest matching segment.
Implement a table to compute the longest common subword length between 'hello' and 'world'. Analyze and explain your results.
💡 Hint: Map the characters in a grid to visualize matches.
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